Keisuke Fujie

Keisuke Fujie (8 November 1885-27 February 1969) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Biography
Keisuke Fujie was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan in 1885, and he graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1905 and graduated from the Army Staff College in 1914. Fujie served as a military attache in Europe before becoming an Army Staff College instructor, and he became a Major-General in August 1934. From 1936 to 1937, he headed the Kempeitai under the Kwantung Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and he was promoted to Lieutenant-General in November 1937. During the war, he also led the IJA 16th Division, and he commanded the IJA 11th Area Army for the defense of the Tohoku region of Japan against the projected American invasion at the end of World War II. He died in 1969 at the age of 83.